# RobustReview

The authors formulate Rhetorical Robustness as a joint requirement (stable judgments under content-preserving rewrites plus discrimination across papers), build RobustReview from 60 anonymized ICLR 2026 submissions under 10 rhetorical conditions for 1,260 full manuscripts, and evaluate 30 reviewer configurations, finding that low rewrite sensitivity often coincides with score collapse across papers ('false robustness') and that human alignment ranks reviewers differently; they then introduce SciCore, a dual-branch reviewer that averages a full-manuscript judgment with a judgment based on an extracted structured science core, achieving a leading joint stability-discrimination profile in the primary GPT-5.5 comparison (ICC 0.775, SPR 0.652, discriminability 0.

The authors formulate Rhetorical Robustness as a joint requirement (stable judgments under content-preserving rewrites plus discrimination across papers), build RobustReview from 60 anonymized ICLR 2026 submissions under 10 rhetorical conditions for 1,260 full manuscripts, and evaluate 30 reviewer configurations, finding that low rewrite sensitivity often coincides with score collapse across papers ('false robustness') and that human alignment ranks reviewers differently; they then introduce SciCore, a dual-branch reviewer that averages a full-manuscript judgment with a judgment based on an extracted structured science core, achieving a leading joint stability-discrimination profile in the primary GPT-5.5 comparison (ICC 0.775, SPR 0.652, discriminability 0.